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[Letter to] My dear May [manuscript]

by: M'Kim, J. Miller (James Miller), 1810-1874; May, Samuel, 1810-1899, recipient

Publication date: 1865

Topics: May, Samuel, 1810-1899, M'Kim, J. Miller (James Miller), 1810-1874, Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898, American Freedmen's Aid Commission, United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Nation (New York, N.Y. : 1865), Antislavery movements, Abolitionists, Social reformers, Freedmen, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Publisher: Germantown, [Pa.]

Collection: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Item Size: 17.7M

Holograph, signed

Title devised by cataloger

Manuscript annotated on recto, with "117" in pencil beneath M'Kim's salutation to May, and "1865" in pencil beneath letterhead address/date

James Miller M'Kim relates to Samuel May, Jr. his labors in New York City with the American Freedmen's Aid Union. M'Kim states that he had returned to Germantown for a few days' rest, and came upon May's letter by accident. M'Kim relates conflicting reports presented to him by mutual friends relating to the quality of the new newspaper "The Nation" to Garrison